mklyons

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Thinking at the Edge(mklyons.com)
2 points by mklyons 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mklyons 1y ago
That’s a fair point. I don’t see it as the antidote for people who are addicted though. It’s just a nice place for people who want to engage less. I’m definitely aware it won’t be a big thing. If you’re looking for an actual antidote to the
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by mklyons 1y ago
I agree with a lot of what you say here. I’ve been running a 3h daily time boxed social media site for the past 6 months and even though traffic is now a crawl compared to the initial burst of activity when I started it, there are users who
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Searching for family history as told by a storied WWII telegram(mklyons.com)
2 points by mklyons 1y ago|0 comments
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by mklyons 2y ago
Hey, sorry about that. I mistakenly believed that my email template had an unsubscribe button built in. I will make sure that the next one has one. If you want to message me your email directly I can remove you so you don't even receiv
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by mklyons 2y ago
That's pretty close to what I'm thinking. If you remove the endless, always-on nature of social media, could it create better content and better experiences? "Better" is subjective of course, so it is hard to have a tigh
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by mklyons 2y ago
Lol I am honestly. I just changed it to 7:39pm EST tomorrow but that won't even be right in EST for much longer...
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by mklyons 2y ago
It was only a matter of time before that happened.
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by mklyons 2y ago
haha I'm with you on the too silly side of it, but I have some time to run the experiment and see where I can go with it. Yes, was not expecting it to hit as much of an audience as it did at the end there. Definitely need some mechanis
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by mklyons 2y ago
Ah, just fixed this! Should say 20h now. It was an issue yesterday but I just let Cursor write something without checking.
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by mklyons 2y ago
My college's class scheduling website also had hours of operation. One of the rumors was that it would stop students from drunkenly dropping all of their classes, but the real truth was that it was based on an old system that needed to
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Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening(seven39.com)
735 points by mklyons 2y ago|349 comments
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by mklyons 3y ago
Neat app, simple and well done. I wonder if you could allow people to create their own riddles and rank them by difficulty and satisfaction rate with upvotes.
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by mklyons 7y ago
Yiannis is a fantastic professor, probably my favorite during undergrad at Maryland.